Activity for Jerenda
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| Edit | Post #20061 | Initial revision | — | about 5 years ago |
| Edit | Post #19593 | Initial revision | — | about 5 years ago |
| Edit | Post #19580 | Initial revision | — | about 5 years ago |
| Edit | Post #19565 | Initial revision | — | about 5 years ago |
| Edit | Post #18850 | Initial revision | — | about 5 years ago |
| Edit | Post #10718 | Initial revision | — | about 5 years ago |
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How do I gain sufficient emotional distance from my work to edit it? This question was asked by a member of my critique group at the beginning of the month and I've been stewing over it for a while now. I still don't have any better ideas, so I'm turning to you. How can a writer separate their emotions from the content of their work? How can you tell "yes, this is goo... (more) |
— | almost 8 years ago |
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How do I know when my work is ready for critique? I run a critiquing group once a month and I've had several of my members say they aren't sure how to tell when their work is ready for critique. I'll be covering this in a workshop tomorrow night, but I figured I'd toss the question to you guys as well. How do you know when your work is ready for cri... (more) |
— | almost 8 years ago |
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A: What should be done if there is a dispute of opinions within the editorial team? All I can offer you is an example of what I've seen done. I don't know the industry standard for such things, and your journal can follow whatever practices it wants. This is just what my newspaper did. When I worked on a student-run newspaper in college, the editorial was always published with a st... (more) |
— | almost 8 years ago |
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A: How do speech writers find the contents that make their speeches so impressive? To answer that, you've got to learn to read like a writer. (Or, in this case, like an orator.) You can study these speeches that impress you to find the answer to that question and to improve your own speeches. Don't just listen to them and be impressed, but analyse them. Take them apart. What are th... (more) |
— | almost 8 years ago |
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A: Should I italicize neologisms created by communities? This is definitely a style question, where there's no one right answer. The only way I can see to answer it, aside from giving my own opinion, is to refer to the only experts possible in this type of work: authors themselves. Let's grab my current favorite book and find out what it does. The Fifth S... (more) |
— | almost 8 years ago |
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What are the ethics of using real-world house addresses in historical fiction? I am editing a novel manuscript for a client of mine. It's a historical fiction set in 1948, so not that long ago. The main character lives in a house above a cafe that I believe is fictional within the real city the novel is set in. At one point, the address of the cafe is mentioned. Currently, the ... (more) |
— | over 10 years ago |